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Current Affairs , 27 May 2021

Current Affairs

1) Telangana State Health department has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Health Authority (NHA) for the implementation of Ayushman Bharat (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) scheme in the State.

▪️Telangana :-

👉CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao

👉Governor of Telangana - Tamilisai Soundararajan (First Women Governor of Telangana)

Amrabad Tiger Reserve

Kawal Tiger Reserve

▪️National Health Authority:-

👉The National Health Authority or the NHA is responsible for implementing India’s flagship public health insurance/assurance scheme Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.

👉Founded- 2018

2) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm 'Yaas' and is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts on May 26 after turning into a very severe cyclonic storm.

▪️Indian Meteorological Department :-

Headquarters - New Delhi

Director General of Meteorology - Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra

Founder - Government of India

Founded - 1875

3) Incumbent Narinder Batra of India was re-elected as the International Hockey Federation (FIH) President for a second term after beating Marc Coudron of Belgium by a slender margin of just two votes during the world body's virtual 47th Congress.

👉Batra, who is the also the President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, barely managed to pip Coudron, who is the chief of Belgium Hockey Federation and sits on the country's Olympic panel.

▪️International Hockey Federation (FIH) :-

Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland

CEO: Thierry Weil

Founded: 7 January 1924, Paris, France

4) A virtually unknown treefrog with known traits such as changing skin shade and whipping up foam to protect its eggs has resurfaced in India after 108 years.

👉 The only previous record of this treefrog in India was south of Arunachal Pradesh's Tenga Valley in 1912.

5) Tech-giant Microsoft has decided to retire its iconic Internet Explorer (IE) browser, with effect from 15 June 2022, after more than 25 years of its launch.

👉 Microsoft recommends its users shift to Microsoft Edge (2015) before June 15, 2022, for a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience.

6) Airline major IndiGo announced that it has selected CFM International 'LEAP-1A' engines to power its fleet of 310 new Airbus family of aircraft which will be delivered from 2023 onwards.

7) Music director Vijay Patil, popularly known as the Laxman of Raam-Laxman duo, passed away.

👉 Patil earned fame for providing music to comic Dada Kondke’s Marathi films and Hindi movies like ‘Hum Aapke Hai Kaun’ and ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’. Patil, born and brought up in Nagpur, started as a singer and instrumentalist in city’s popular orchestra groups.

8) Karnataka stands at first place when it comes to establishing health and wellness centres (HWC) under the Ayushman Bharat programme to provide comprehensive primary health care in rural areas.

▪️Karnataka:-

CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa

Governor :- Vajubhai Vala

Formation :- 1 November 1956

Language :- Kannada

Port :- New Mangalore Port

9) Atletico Madrid was crowned La Liga 2020-21 champions of Spain on 22 May 2021.

👉 Atletico topped the table with 86 points, two points more than second-placed Real Madrid.

10) HSBC India has launched digital banking solutions for its corporate customers.

👉 HSBC SmartServe and HSBC IntelliSign are first-of-its-kind digital solutions aimed at ensuring a quick, secure and seamless on-boarding process for corporate clients.

11) The Bombay High Court on 21 May 2021 allowed a woman to terminate her 24-week pregnancy following the recommendation of a JJ Hospital panel.

👉 The plea was filed by the woman, pregnant with triplets, seeking permission to abort her pregnancy because only one fetus was healthy12) The Government has extended the due date of filing ITR for Assessment Year 2021-22 for individuals by two months till

1) India to push for Covaxin recognition by WHO and EU

2) Aurovillian Christoph Pohl’s documentary Ever Slow Green, which tells the story of Auroville’s unique afforestation project that took root on an eroded desert plateau in Villupuram district, has been officially selected for screening at the prestigious ChangeNow summit in Paris.

3) Operation Samudra Setu II: In the largest consignment of liquid medical oxygen, Navy’s INS Jalashwa arrived in Visakhapatnam with 300 metric tonne of oxygen and more than 3,600 oxygen cylinders from Singapore and Brunei under the ongoing Operation Samudra Setu II.

4) Dent in 'China Cooperation Group' in Europe: Lithuania said on Saturday it was quitting China’s 17+1 cooperation forum with central and eastern European states that includes other EU members, calling it “divisive”.

5) Loophole in plan for Vaccine Procurement at state level: Moderna refuses Punjab vaccine request, says it deals with Centre alone

6) Without hyphens: Jaishankar signals that Delhi won’t abandon difficult dialogue with China, nor is it panicking into military alliance with US

7) Afghanistan 2.0: What continued US engagement means for the regionAs US withdraws troops from Afghanistan, developments in the country will raise security concerns beyond South Asia

8) RBI's new restructuring package for small borrowers: Will it work?

9) Judgment on Singing guarantees: The Supreme Court judgment upholding creditors’ right to proceed against personal guarantors to loans provided by them to a corporate borrower and also the individuals who had furnished personal guarantees to enable the flow of credit to the company they had stood surety for.

10) Environmental fiscal reforms will reduce pollution and generate resources for financing the health secto

📖 Current Affairs : 12 February 2021

1) Union Environment Ministry approved the Lakhwar electricity project on Yamuna river. Apart from electricity generation, six states will also get irrigation and pure drinking water from this project. Its construction will provide 330 metric cusec meters of additional water.

▪️ Ministry Of Environment, Forest And Climate Change :-

Founded: 1985

Headquarters: New Delhi

Cabinet Minister - Prakash Javadekar

Minister of State - Babul Supriyo

2) The 1st meeting of the Joint Working Group in the field of Renewable Energy between India and the Kingdom of Bahrain held in virtual format. Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, President of Sustainable Energy Authority led the Bahraini delegation.

3) The third Bangladesh Film Festival 2021 opened in Kolkata. Information Minister of Bangladesh Dr. Hasan Mahmud inaugurated the festival as Chief Guest. Minister for Science and Technology, government of West Bengal Bratya Basu and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla joined the festival as the guest of honour.

▪️Bangladesh:-

👉Capital and largest city:- Dhaka

President :- Abdul Hamid

Prime Minister :- Sheikh Hasina

▪️West Bengal :-

👉CM - Mamata Banerjee

👉GOVERNOR - Jagdeep Dhankhar

👉Folk Dances - Lathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Chhau, Santhali Dance

4) Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Rajya Sabha term ends.He first became a Rajya Sabha member in 1990 from Maharashtra but in 1996, shifted to his home state, Jammu and Kashmir — which became a Union Territory in 2019. Azad represented it from 1996 to 2006, resigning mid-way as he became the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-

👉L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha

👉Dachigam National Park

👉Salim Ali National Park

👉Dal Lake

5) The Asian Football Confederation has granted All India Football Federation the rights to host the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022 finals.

▪️ Recent News :- Abhishek Yadav has been appointed as the 1st deputy general secretary of AIFF?

▪️All India Football Federation:-

President: Praful Patel

Founded: 23 June 1937

FIFA affiliation: 1948

AFC affiliation: 1954

Headquarters: Dwarka, Delhi

6) The Textiles Committee, Ministry of Textiles, and Nissenken Quality Evaluation Centre, Japan, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure quality of textile and clothing exports to Japan as specified by Japanese buyers.

▪️ Recent News :- Textiles Minister Smriti Irani has inaugurated the 8th India International Silk Fair on Virtual Portal. The fair is considered to be India’s biggest silk fair, being held under one roof on Indian Silk Export Promotion Council’s virtual platform.

7) The historical city Mandu in Madhya Pradesh is all set to welcome tourists to the Mandu Festival of this year on February 13th and 14th. The two-day Mandu festival organised by Madhya Pradesh Tourism will have heritage walks, cycling tours, photo contests, yoga workshops, musical performances and much more.

▪️Recent News - World's largest floating solar energy project in India is going to be constructed on Omkareshwar Dam on Narmada river.

▪️Madhya Pradesh

CM - Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Governor - Anandiben Patel

8) The Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated “Aadi Mahotsav”, a National Tribal Festival being organized by TRIFED, Ministry of Tribal Affairs at Dilli Haat, INA, New Delhi.

👉Aadi Mahotsav is a Celebration of the Spirit of Tribal Culture, Crafts, Cuisine and Commerce – is a successful annual initiative that was commenced in 2017.

9) The Indian military carried out a large-scale conjoint training exercise, codenamed Kavach or shield, in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal to fine-tune joint war-fighting capabilities.

▪️Ministry of Defence :-

Headquarters - New Delhi

Founded - 15 August 1947

👉The Indian Armed Forces (including Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy) and Indian Coast Guard under the Ministry of Defence are primarily responsible for ensuring the territorial integrity of India.

📖 Current Affairs : 11 February 2021

1) India’s first ‘amputee clinic’ has been launched by Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh.

👉Chandigarh was designed by the Swiss-French modernist architect, Le Corbusier.

👉Sukhna Lake

👉Iskcon Temple

👉Terraced Garden

👉Le Corbusier Center

2) Meghalaya has selected for a Special Award for Information Technology applications in Elections by the Election Commission of India, in the National Best Electoral Practices Awards-2020.

▪️ Recent News :-

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated India’s longest road arch bridge, the Wahrew Bridge at Sohbar in East Khasi Hills district.

▪️Meghalaya :-

👉Governor - Satya Pal Malik

👉Umiam Lake

👉Nartiang Durga Temple

👉Khasi, Garo and Jaintia hills

3) First dedicated Wetland Conservation and Management Centre under MoEFCC set up in Chennai.

👉India currently has 42 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites). This is the highest in South Asia.

4) Karuna Sagar, a 1991 batch IPS officer of the TN cadre, has bagged the prestigious Bharat Gaurav Award for the year 2020 under the public service category.

👉The award ceremony, held at the national capital, was presided over by Union Minister Mansukh L Mandaviya and Minister of State Faggan Singh Kulaste

5) To provide basic diagnostic facilities to the poor for free, the government has launched pathology laboratories in Telangana, called mini-hubs, in Hyderabad.

▪️Telangana :-

👉CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao

👉Governor of Telangana - Tamilisai Soundararajan (First Women Governor of Telangana)

6) President Ram Nath Kovind launched the pulse polio programme for 2021 by administering polio drops to children less than five years of age at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

7) Preliminary surveys have shown presence of lithium deposits of 1,600 tonnes in Mandya district of Karnataka.

👉The survey was done on surface and limited subsurface in the pegmatites of Marlagalla - Allapatna area by Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), a constituent unit of Department of Atomic Energy.

▪️Karnataka:-

CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa

Governor :- Vajubhai Vala

Formation :- 1 November 1956

Language :- Kannada

Port :- New Mangalore Port

8) CBI Additional Director Praveen Sinha, a 1988-batch Gujarat cadre IPS, has been appointed acting chief of the agency till a decision on a new director is taken to succeed Rishi Kumar Shukla who retired after a two-year fixed stint.

👉The CBI headquarter is located in CGO Complex, near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.

👉Formed - 1942 as the Special Police Establishment

👉Headquarters - New Delhi, India

👉Motto - Industry, Impartiality, Integrity

9) Cipla Limited referred to as “Cipla” announced the launch of its book ‘Caring For Life: The Cipla Story Since 1935’.

▪️Cipla Limited :-

Founded - 1935

Founder - Khwaja Abdul Hamied

Headquarters - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

10) Goa government signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the

Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) to establish a Model Career Centre (MCC) at Goa. This MoU is signed with a motive to find suitable employment & livelihood for the youth.

▪️Goa Recent News :-

Recently, India flagged off the 40th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (40-ISEA) from the ormugao Port, Goa by the Ministry of Earth Science.

👉Goa CM - Pramod Pandurang Sawant

👉Goa Governor - Bhagat Singh Koshyari

11) Odisha's Balasore will get the country's first thunderstorm research testbed. The objective of setting up the thunderstorm testbed is to minimalise human fatalities and loss of property due to lightning strikes.

👉the thunderstorm testbed will be established in a collaboration between the Ministry of Earth Sciences, IMD, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

📖 Current Affairs : 9 February 2021

1) Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan has launched Vedhik Erudite Foundation’s ambitious scheme to provide free coaching for civil services and other competitive examinations to 10,000 meritorious but financially weak students across the State.

▪️Kerala :-

Kerala: Periyar River

👉Kerala: Cherai Beach

👉Vallam Kali boat race in Kerala.

👉Kerala: Idukki Dam on Periyar River

👉Kerala :- Pamba River

👉CM :- Pinarayi Vijayan

👉GOVERNOR :- Arif Mohammad Khan

2) By educating over 30,000 illiterates within five months under Padho Doon Badho Doon campaign, the Dehradun has became the first district in Uttarakhand to achieve the 100 percent literacy rate.

▪️Uttarakhand CM :- Trivendra Singh Rawat 

Governor :- Baby Rani Maurya

👉Asan Conservation Reserve

👉Country's first moss garden

👉Country's first Pollinator Park

👉Integrated Model Agriculture Village Scheme

3) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed a tighter regulatory framework for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs).

Reserve Bank of India:-

👉Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, 

👉Established:- 1 April 1935

👉Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

4) In the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, between 2000-2019 Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti were the countries most affected by the impacts of weather events.

👉As per the index, India has been ranked 7th Global Climate Risk Report Index 2021.

5) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has launched Ayushman Bharat Mahatma Gandhi Rajasthan Swasthya Bima Yojana to provide free treatment to the poor of the state at government as well as private hospitals.

▪️ Recent News - The 16th edition of Indo-U.S. joint military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ will be held in Rajasthan between February 8 and 21.

▪️ Rajasthan:-

CM - Ashok Gehlot

Governor - Kalraj Mishra

👉Amber Palace, Hawa Mahal, Ranthambore National Park, City Palace, Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Sariska National Park.

6) Ministry of Coal launched Single Window Clearance Portal, a unified platform that facilitates grant of clearances and approvals required for starting a coal mine in India.

👉Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah launched the portal in presence of Union Minister of Coal & Mines Shri Pralhad Joshi.

7) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the famous Toshali National Crafts Mela 2021. 

👉Patnaik inaugurated the 15th edition of the mela, which is the biggest fair in the Eastern India.

👉Odisha CM - Naveen Patnaik

👉 Governor - Ganeshi Lal

👉Shree Jagannath Temple

👉Lingaraja Temple

👉Bramheswara Temple

👉Maa Samaleswari Temple

8)Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and French Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili launched the Indo-French Year of the Environment, under which the two countries will engage in discussions on critical areas of collaboration relating to environment and allied areas

▪️ Ministry Of Environment, Forest And Climate Change :-

Founded: 1985

Headquarters: New Delhi

Cabinet Minister - Prakash Javadekar

Minister of State - Babul Supriyo

9) From modest beginnings in 1996, Aero India has come a long way to become Asia’s largest defence and aerospace air show over the years. In its 25th year, the government is using it to further geopolitical goals with strategic events.

👉For the first time, the 13th edition will see an Indian Ocean Region (IOR) defence minister’s conclave as India seeks a bigger role in this volatile hub of global geopolitical rivalry.

👉Bengaluru has hosted all 13 editions of the show.

▪️ Recent News - The Chief Minister of Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa launched "Krishi Sanjeevani Vans" in Bengaluru. 

▪️Karnataka:-

CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa

Governor :- Vajubhai Vala

Formation :- 1 November 1956

Language :- Kannada

Port :- New Mangalore Port

📖 Current Affairs : 8 February 2021

1) The Tamil Nadu government named senior IAS officer Rajeev Ranjan as Chief Secretary.

👉The Centre had approved the repatriation of Mr. Ranjan to his parent cadre (Tamil Nadu) “on the request” of the State government.

👉Tamil Nadu CM :- Edappadi K. Palaniswami

👉Governor :- Banwarilal Purohit

👉Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai

👉Pallava temples at Mahabalipuram

👉Brihadeeswara Temple

2) The CSIR(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) and CMERI (Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute) has developed 1st Ever Waste-Water Treatment Technology which Purifies Waste Water for Irrigation/Farming Purposes.

▪️Council of Scientific and Industrial Research:-

👉Founder - Arcot Ramaswamy Mudaliar and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

👉Established - 26 September 1942

👉President - Prime Minister of India

👉Director General - Shekhar C. Mande

👉Parent institution - Ministry of Science & Technology

3) Textiles Minister Smriti Irani has inaugurated the 8th India International Silk Fair on Virtual Portal. The fair is considered to be India’s biggest silk fair, being held under one roof on Indian Silk Export Promotion Council’s virtual platform.

4) India has announced a pledge of USD 150,000 to activities of the Peacebuilding Fund this year and said that 2021 provides the international community with an opportunity to look at peacebuilding in a more focused manner, especially in the context of the COVID pandemic.

5) Kunwar Manvendra Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), former deputy chairman and executive chairman of the Legislative Council, has been made the pro-tem speaker of the Uttar Pardesh legislative council.

👉He was administered the oath of office by governor Anandiben Patel at Raj Bhavan.

▪️Recent News - Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Chauri Chaura Centenary celebrations virtually in Uttar Pradesh.

👉 Chief minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the 24th edition of the Hunar Haat, a flagship programme of the ministry of minority affairs to promote indigenous handicraft and speciality products, at Awadh Shilpgram, Lucknow.

👉Recently, Uttar Pradesh government (UP) Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath launched a 3-week ong campaign namely “Kisan Kalyan Mission” for the state’s farmer welfare and to double their income.

6) Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) has developed the country's first indigenous machine pistol ASMI.

▪️Defence Research and Development Organisation( DRDO) :-

👉 Founded - 1958

👉 HeadQuarter - New Delhi

👉 Chairman - G. Satheesh Reddy

👉 Recent News - Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW)

7)Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and French Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili launched the Indo-French Year of the Environment, under which the two countries will engage in discussions on critical areas of collaboration relating to environment and allied areas

▪️ Ministry Of Environment, Forest And Climate Change :-

Founded: 1985

Headquarters: New Delhi

Cabinet Minister - Prakash Javadekar

Minister of State - Babul Supriyo

8) Telangana government has launched its own packaged drinking water 'Mission Bhagiratha'. The bottle contains regular piped drinking water and is supplied to all government offices at free of cost.

▪️Telangana :-

👉CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao

👉Governor of Telangana - Tamilisai Soundararajan (First Women Governor of Telangana)

9)The 16th edition of Indo-U.S. joint military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ will be held in Rajasthan between February 8 and 21.

👉The exercise near the India-Pakistan border aims at enhancing cooperation and interoperability between the two armies and will focus on counter-terrorism operations under the United Nations mandate.

▪️Ministry of Defence :-

Headquarters - New Delhi

Founded - 15 August 1947

👉Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat

👉Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) :- General Manoj Mukund Naravane

10) Ajay Singh was re-elected the president of

📖 Current Affairs : 6 February 2021

1) RS Sharma, former chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has been appointed as the CEO of the National Health Authority (NHA).

👉He will be replacing Indu Bhushan whose three years terms comes to an end.

▪️National Health Authority:-

👉The National Health Authority or the NHA is responsible for implementing India’s flagship public health insurance/assurance scheme Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.

👉Founded- 2018

▪️Telecom Regulatory Authority of India:-

Founded - 20 February 1997

Headquarters - New Delhi

2) Former Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) High Court, Justice Gita Mittal has been appointed Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC).

👉BCCC is an independent self-regulatory body set up by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) in June 2011 for non-news, general entertainment channels.

👉Indian Broadcasting Foundation also known as (IBF) is a unified representative body of the television broadcasters in India. The organisation was founded in the year 1999.

3) Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today addressed the inaugural ceremony of the ASEAN India Hackathon.

👉ASEAN was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok by the five original member countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined on 8 January 1984, Vietnam on 28 July 1995, Laos and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999.

▪️Ministry of Education :-

👉Formed :- 15 August 1947

👉Headquarters :- New Delhi

4) S Gopalakrishnan has been appointed as the next high commissioner of the India to the Republic of Malawi by the Ministry of External Affairs.

👉Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, is defined by its topography of highlands split by the Great Rift Valley and enormous Lake Malawi.

5) Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 125th anniversary celebrations of the ‘Prabuddha Bharata’ journal.

👉Prabuddha Bharata' is a monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order which was started by Swami Vivekananda. It has been in publication since 1896 and carries articles on social sciences and humanities comprising historical, psychological, cultural and social sciences themes.

6) The Karnataka Chief Minister, BS Yediyurappa recently launched Avalokana software to access data on expenditures and sanctions incurred on 1,800 programmes.

▪️Karnataka:-

CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa

Governor :- Vajubhai Vala

Formation :- 1 November 1956

Language :- Kannada

Port :- New Mangalore Port

7) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh virtually kicked off a state-wide scheme for allotment of 7,219 fair price shops (FPS) under his government's flagship 'Ghar Ghar Rozgar te Karobaar Mission'.

▪️Punjab :-

👉Heart of India’s Sikh community

👉CM :- Captain Amarinder Singh

👉GOVERNOR :- VP Singh Badnore

👉Major steel manufacturer.

👉A major producer of essential crops.

8) India inked a strategic partnership agreement with the International Energy Agency (IEA) to strengthen cooperation in global energy security, stability and sustainability.

▪️International Energy Agency:-

👉Headquarters - Paris, France

👉Founded - November 1974

09) The theme of National Voters Day 2021 is, 'Making Our Voters Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and Informed'.

10) Border Security Force (BSF) has launched operation ‘Sard Hawa’ at the western international border of Rajasthan, under which vigil will be beefed-up to check the instances of infilteration due to the dense fog in the area.

▪️Border Security Force (BSF):-

👉Formed - 1 December, 1965

👉Governing body - Ministry of Home Affairs (India)

👉Constituting instrument- Border Security Force Act, 1968

👉Headquarters - New Delhi, India

👉Minister of Home Affairs- Amit Shah,

👉Director General, BSF - Rakesh Asthana

📰 Current Affairs,

🗓️ 04 February 2021 .

👩‍🦰 Sangeeta Bahadur Appointed As High Commissioner Of India To Malta

👤 R N Swamy Appointed As Principal Secretary For Parliamentary Affairs

👤 Air Marshal Manavendra Singh Appointed Chief Of Southern Air Command

👤 Redmi India Ropes In Sonu Sood As Brand Ambassador

👩‍✈️ Ayesha Aziz (25) From Kashmir Becomes India's Youngest Female Pilot

✅ In The Year 2011 , Aziz Became The Youngest Student Pilot To Get A License At The Age Of 15

👩‍🦰 Erin Liz John Won The Miss Kerala Title Which Was Conducted Virtually

💉 India Becomes Fastest Country To Reach 4M COVID-19 Vaccination Mark

✅ The Country Has Achieved This Feat In 18 Days

👤 Amazon Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos Will Step Down From The Company

👤 Andy Jassy Will Take Over As The New CEO Of Amazon

👤 Praveen Sinha Has Been Appointed As Acting Chief Of CBI

👤 Anurag Mehrotra Appointed President & MD Of Ford India

💉 Singapore Becomes 1st Asian Nation To Approve Moderna's Covid-19 Vaccine

🏆 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Awarded With The Bharat Asmita National Award 2021

🏢 India Got Its 1st Specialised Institution - CWCM In Chennai , Tamil Nadu

✅ CWCM : Centre For Wetland Conservation And Management

🔶 India To Host Indian Ocean Region Defence Ministers’ Conclave

✅ Theme : " Enhanced Peace, Security & Cooperation In The Indian Ocean "

✈️ 13th Edition Of Aero India International Air Show Begin In Bengaluru

✅ Organised By The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO)

✅ The 1st Edition Of The " Aero India " Air Show Was Held In 1996

🔶 1st Phase Of Census And Updation Of NPR Has Been Postponed

✅ Govt Decided To Conduct Census 2021 Under The Census Act , 1948 In 2 Phases

1⃣ House Listing And Housing Census During April-September , 2020

2⃣ Population Enumeration During February 9-28 , 2021

🐦 Forest Department Of West Bengal Conducted Its 1st water Birds Census

✅ The Study Was Conducted Between Jan 12- Feb 2 , 2021 In 54 Different Locations

🚁 IIT Kanpur Members Have Developed A Light Weight Helicopter (4KG)

✅ Helicopter Developed By IIT-Kanpur’s Incubated Start-Up Company EndureAir Pvt Ltd

😷 Andaman & Nicobar Islands Is The 1st UT Un India Become Covid-19 Free

🤝 Ford Joins Hand With Google To Offer Cloud-Based Data Services

🏆 Merv Hughes Inducted Into Australian Cricket Hall Of Fame

📒 Dalai Lama Pens New Book " The Little Book Of Encouragement "

✅ Edited By Renuka Singh & Published By Penguin Random House

🏆 Denmark Won The Title Of " Handball World C'Ship " Held In Egypt

🔶 India’s 1st Gender Park Will Be Established In Kozhikode , Kerala .